278: Hogo, eighth gear

Beside the Gravity Room.

Meng Tianzong stood smiling beside Xiao Fan, explaining how to use the Gravity Room.

"The Gravity Room is also known as the Gravitational Room."

"There's a knob in the middle to adjust the Rank. There are 9 Ranks in total."

"The Rank 5 Gravity Room inherently possesses 5 times the gravitational pull of Blue Star, which is Rank Zero."

"Each time you go up one Rank, your current gravity increases by 2 times."

"Rank 1 is 7 times, Rank 2 is 9 times, Rank 3 is 11 times, Rank 4 is 13 times, and so on."

Xiao Fan nodded slightly. He had never used a Gravity Room before and didn't know what multiple times the gravitational pull meant.

Since the betting had started, he might as well be straightforward.

Xiao Fan directly opened the Gravity Room door and stepped inside.

Huo Gao, opposite him, also followed closely, walking in with a smile.

Then, an operation that left Xiao Fan dumbfounded occurred.

Huo Gao, after taking a few deep breaths and adapting to the surroundings, walked to the center and began furiously pressing the adjustment knob!

"Rank One, Rank Two, Rank Three."

At Rank Three, he stopped, his face already painfully distorted, and the muscles all over his body were trembling.

Then, he directly activated Earth Element to entangle his Physical Body, seemingly using a special Martial Arts to stabilize his trembling Physical Body.

Next, Rank Four, Rank Five.

Upon reaching Rank Five, the Earth Element on Huo Gao's body surprisingly couldn't stabilize and gradually shattered, like crumbling porcelain, constantly falling off.

His eyes were ferocious. After a furious roar, he immediately pressed Rank Six!

After Rank Six was activated, in just one second!

The Earth Element on Huo Gao's body immediately began to rapidly crumble, revealing real skin. Only then did people realize that blood was starting to seep from the pores on his skin, covering his entire body.

His robust, ox-like body trembled with exaggerated amplitude. He threw his head back, his eyes wide, and began to howl in pain!

"Roar!"

The Gravity Room's sound insulation was not good.

Everyone listening to the distorted roar felt a chill.

At this moment, Huo Gao's scarlet eyes suddenly fixed on Xiao Fan, as if looking at a sworn enemy.

This made Xiao Fan quite surprised.

I have no grudge with him, right?

Suddenly, the expression on Huo Gao's face changed from ferocity to a sinister grin, making a 'hehehe' sound, like a pervert whose scheme had succeeded.

He lightly pressed the adjustment knob with his hand at his side, his eyes still fixed on Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan frowned, thinking that he must have reached his limit, right? If he adjusted the Rank higher, it might be life-threatening, right?

It's only a few bottles of Source Fluid, why risk your life?

At this moment, Huo Gao suddenly roared with extreme excitement: "Ultimate!"

"Burst!!!"

In an instant, the muscles inside him violently swelled and expanded, and his Physical Body strength increased.

Xiao Fan's expression changed slightly because he heard those four words.

Ultimate Burst?

Is that the Martial Arts?

No wonder he dared to bet with me!

Meng Tianzong, that dog, had already set a trap for me!

However, the Martial Arts of Ultimate Burst is truly abnormal.

After using it, Huo Gao's arms became as thick as an ancient giant python, with bulging muscles, full of explosive power.

His smile at this moment was like a triumphant warrior, but also mixed with the vulgarity of a small person who had achieved his goal!

"Xiao Fan, I'm sorry, but I want this Source Fluid!"

Then, he fiercely pressed the button to increase the Rank.

"Rank Seven!"

This Rank was already terrifying.

On the Rank display screen above the Gravity Room, red lights began to flash, emitting a piercing "beep beep beep" sound, full of excitement!

Inside!

A large mouthful of fresh blood gushed from Huo Gao's mouth!

"Pfft!"

His eyes turned fierce, and he fiercely pressed the up-adjustment button again!

After pressing it, the flashing red light, representing danger, doubled in intensity, and the "beep beep beep" sound became so urgent that it made people's heartbeats involuntarily quicken!

But it only lit up for less than a second!

Outside, Meng Tianzong immediately pressed the forced shutdown button.

"Click!"

In an instant.

Everything returned to calm!

The muscles on Huo Gao's body returned to normal!

All red lights dissipated, and the urgent sounds disappeared.

Huo Gao in the Gravity Room crashed to the ground, covered in blood, and then his head tilted, and he fainted.

Meng Tianzong walked forward with a smile and opened the door.

The moment the door opened, choking gray smoke mixed with the smell of blood wafted out. Meng Tianzong carried the unconscious Huo Gao out.

Although this guy was severely injured, no one worried about him.

Everyone had already prepared the medicinal liquid, which was in another resting room next door. Just throw him in to soak and sleep for a night, and he'd be fine.

Wen Shuangshuang, standing beside, rested her elbow on the round table where the chips were placed, propping up her chin, a hint of admiration in her eyes.

Huo Gao truly lived up to his reputation as an elite of the Zhenshan Troops. It had been many years since anyone had reached all nine Ranks of a Rank 5 Gravity Room. Even those who had reached Rank Eight could be counted on one hand.

Huo Gao still had some distance to go before reaching the limit of the Great Grandmaster Realm; he had a chance to touch Rank Nine.

Although it wasn't a straightforward entry into Rank Nine, but rather using a special Martial Arts like Ultimate Burst, for an "ordinary person," it was already very impressive.

She looked at Xiao Fan, wanting to know if this "super Genius" who was far beyond "ordinary people" could reach Huo Gao's height despite being a whole Great Realm lower.

From beginning to end, Xiao Fan's expression was very calm, as if everything was under his control.

Huo Gao's Ultimate Burst also failed to make him lose composure, which indicated that he was very confident.

Meng Tianzong and the others noticed that Xiao Fan's expression hadn't changed at all, and they inexplicably felt a little worried.

In their imagination, when Huo Gao used Ultimate Burst and reached Rank Eight, Xiao Fan should have been greatly surprised, looking as if it was unexpected.

There were only three possibilities.

He simply didn't care about losing these 100 bottles of Source Fluid.

Or he didn't know what Rank 8 meant.

Or he... could also reach Rank Eight.

Hopefully, it's not the last possibility!

Meng Tianzong suddenly felt a bit nervous; losing this would mean several bottles!

Everyone in the Zhenshan Troops was silent, staring intently at Xiao Fan.

At this moment, Xiao Fan in the Gravity Room was carefully sensing the five-times increased gravitational pull around him.

He hadn't felt any pain yet, but he was very uncomfortable, feeling a blockage in his heart, because in this environment, his movement speed, jumping height, and all other abilities were greatly restricted.

This made Xiao Fan think of what the Great General had told him before about planet Ranks.

Chen Changsheng and the others could easily explode planets because those planets had very low mass, referred to as "comets."

Above comets were satellites, with several times the mass of comets, which even Peak Martial Emperors couldn't destroy and could serve as battlefields between Martial Emperors.

Above satellites were planets, such as the eight planets of the Galaxy: Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, and so on...

These were planets that Martial Emperors couldn't destroy no matter how hard they tried.

Blue Star used to be one of the planets, but with the revival of Source Qi, Blue Star's mass reached the level of a star!

The masses of stars also varied, but not by much, and they were all dozens of times harder than planets!

For example, the sun.

Martial Emperors could never destroy the sun, and by the same logic, Blue Star was also the same.

Therefore, even if dozens of Martial Emperors were fighting each other on Blue Star, they couldn't cause substantial damage to the planet's foundation.

The Gravity Room, to put it on a larger scale, is a miniature Small World, and this world's mass is even more terrifying.

But if one could completely adapt to this world, then upon returning to Blue Star, his strength and speed would be several times faster.

However, achieving this also meant that your Realm had improved.

Therefore, the Gravity Room is the best Physical Body tempering equipment!

Thinking of this, Xiao Fan took out four bottles of Ultimate Source Fluid he had prepared earlier and drank them all at once.

Outside, whether it was the Zhenshan Troops, Wen Shuangshuang, or Aya, everyone's expressions changed slightly at this sight.

Xiao Fan was playing a bit big!

It seemed that he not only wanted to win against Huo Gao but also intended to digest four bottles of Source Fluid in this Gravity Room session!

Meng Tianzong chuckled, thinking that a super Genius was a super Genius. No matter how much he told him that the normal person's daily limit was two bottles, he wouldn't listen.

He wanted four bottles!

Otherwise, how could he be called the "super Genius" that people talked about?

At this moment.

Aya and Wen Shuangshuang exchanged glances.

"Do you think he can digest four bottles?" Wen Shuangshuang asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Three and a half bottles is the limit," Aya said lightly.

Wen Shuangshuang also nodded slightly. She observed that after digesting two bottles of Source Fluid, the difficulty of digesting every additional milliliter would become greater and greater.

Four bottles, seemingly twice as much as two bottles, but the difficulty might be 10 times greater!

Finally, people looked at Xiao Fan, whose expression was firm at this moment.

He not only wanted to challenge his own weight-bearing limit!

He also wanted to measure his Physical Body's resistance limit.

He wanted to forcibly exhaust most of his strength in a short time, then take medicine to recover, and then exhaust it again.

To see how many repetitions it would take before causing severe damage to his Physical Body.

This was very important because it would affect his Cultivation speed!